How do I fix text copied from a PDF with broken lines?

PDF text often pastes with hard line breaks at every visual line ending. Use the "Smart Unwrap" mode which detects sentence endings and merges lines into paragraphs while preserving actual paragraph breaks marked by blank lines.

What is the difference between removing all line breaks and unwrapping?

Removing all line breaks creates one giant text block. Smart unwrapping only removes breaks within sentences but keeps double line breaks that separate paragraphs, maintaining your document structure.

What is hard wrap vs soft wrap?

Hard-wrapped text has actual newline characters inserted at fixed column widths (like 80 characters). Soft-wrapped text flows automatically to fit the screen. This tool converts hard wraps to spaces for natural soft wrapping.

Can I remove email reply arrows (>) and line breaks together?

Yes. Enable "Clean email quotes" to strip > characters and indentation from forwarded email chains before merging the lines into clean paragraphs.

What are carriage return and line feed characters?

Carriage return (\r) and line feed (\n) are invisible characters that create new lines. Windows uses both (CRLF), Mac/Linux use just LF. The tool handles all formats automatically.

Will unwrapping destroy my paragraph structure?

Smart mode preserves paragraphs by keeping blank lines intact. Only single line breaks within paragraphs are converted to spaces. Use "Remove all" mode only when you want a single continuous block.

Line Break Remover & Text Unwrapper

Fix jagged text from PDFs, emails, and terminals instantly

Paste your broken text

Lines

Line Breaks

Paragraphs

Characters

Unwrap Mode

Options

Clean email quotes (>) Trim trailing spaces Collapse multiple spaces

Cleaned Result

0 line breaks removed

Before (Broken)

This is an example of text
that was copied from a PDF
document with hard line
breaks at every line ending.

After (Fixed)

This is an example of text that was copied from a PDF document with hard line breaks at every line ending.

How Text Unwrapping Works

Copied text from a PDF column or old email and got a jagged mess? Don't delete line breaks manually. Our unwrap tool analyzes your text to distinguish between mid-sentence breaks and actual paragraph separators.

Smart Mode vs Remove All

Smart mode replaces single line breaks with spaces while keeping blank lines that separate paragraphs. Remove All mode creates one continuous block. Use Smart mode for documents, Remove All for single-paragraph cleanup.

Perfect For

Students fixing citations from academic PDFs. Developers cleaning terminal output or git logs. Email marketers formatting plain-text newsletters. Anyone dealing with fixed-width text from legacy systems.

Technical Details

The tool handles all line ending formats: Windows CRLF (\r\n), Unix LF (\n), and old Mac CR (\r). It normalizes them before processing. For developers: this is similar to replacing \n with a space, but with paragraph-aware logic.

For Developers

The regex pattern for basic unwrapping:


        text.replace(/([^\n])\n([^\n])/g, '$1 $2')

This preserves double newlines (paragraphs) while joining single-break lines.